V1.Chapter 185

There are too many changes in the process of growth. The only constant seems to be the father's doting on his daughter.

Year after year, the birthday party he held for his daughter became more and more luxurious.

My father spent a lot of money on the 11th birthday party, which covered the whole garden city.

"Right here, stop." Father loosened the hand that covered Zi Di's eyes, "Dang Dang!"

Zidi's eyes suddenly brightened, her small mouth subconsciously opened into an O shape, and her face showed a thick surprise and surprise.

In front of her eyes, a huge cake, which is up to three meters high and divided into 11 layers, is shining with gorgeous brilliance. Each layer has a main color, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple... It is dreamy and charming like a rainbow.

Zidi exclaimed, "Rainbow cake!"

This classic dessert is famous throughout the Empire. No more than ten people can make it in the world. Because it uses many rare magic materials. Every bite of rainbow cake can make people feel the sweetest taste in the world and produce a very relaxed and pleasant mood.

This is a super pastry, which is of great help and growth to the eater in cultivation and state.

"Haven't you been curious about the taste of rainbow cake?" Father smiled, "so this time, I invited the famous pastry master. This cake is your birthday cake!"

"Dad, this is... Great!" Zidi was so excited that she was a little incoherent. She hugged her father's arm, leaned her head on his shoulder, and her eyes flashed, "I knew you loved me most, Dad."

"Of course, you are my little princess." The father smiled, and immediately showed a hesitation, "daughter, in addition to this birthday cake, my father also arranged a date for you."

"Another date?" Zidi immediately loosened her arm, stepped back and looked at her father with a frown.

The father smiled wryly, "son, you've grown up, it's time to accept these things. I know you've always hated these, but..."

"OK, OK. For the sake of rainbow cake, I'll go. But don't expect me to lower my standards... Which family is it this time?"

Father blinked repeatedly. He had prepared these words for a long time, but when he was about to say it, he found that it was so difficult to reveal them!

"He is an aristocrat among the aristocrats, of course, he is also a knight..." it took a long time for his father to speak, and his tone was difficult.

"Well, I know. Don't say it!" Before her father finished speaking, the girl Zidi interrupted him. She began to appreciate the rainbow cake carefully, and her whole mind was on it, constantly tutting and praising.

Looking at his daughter's happy appearance, his father's expression was quite complicated.

He opened his mouth several times, trying to tell more.

Zi Di occasionally looked up and saw her father standing where he was, so she waved her hand, "Dad, are you still here? Go and be busy. Don't worry, I'll deal with it. Even if I don't like it, I'll never offend each other!"

"Then I'll go." Father sighed and turned away with difficulty.

Dinner gathering, dignitaries cluster.

Zidi is a well deserved protagonist, and the gift is soft handed.

Midway through the banquet, Zidi walked to a room on the second floor.

Today, she is dressed in a pink princess dress with lovely lace. On his feet are a pair of white pearl like high heels, and on his arms are long gloves made of pink silk. Her hair curled up like waves, and her Amethyst eyes were covered by thick eyelashes, which made her cute, noble and charming.

Compared with when she just appeared, now she has a bright diamond necklace on her chest, a white jade bracelet set with gold on her wrists, and a small and exquisite crystal crown on her head. These are all gifts given by dignitaries at the dinner party. She opened them face to face and put them on with joy, which made both the host and guests happy.

In the dance hall downstairs, the sensation caused by the rainbow cake continues.

"This is the most beautiful birthday party I have ever had." Zidi was in a happy mood and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Sound came from the room.

Zidi entered the room and saw a pudgy middle-aged man standing in front of the French window, holding a wine glass in his hand, overlooking the garden in the dark. The moonlight shone on his face through the window, revealing the oily light on his face.

"Lord." Zidi was slightly stunned. She had come to the appointment. Unexpectedly, she saw the Lord of garden city.

"I think I may have gone to the wrong room." Zidi is going to leave.

"You didn't go wrong, my little beauty." The garden Lord turned around and looked at Zidi with a smile, "the object of your date is me."

"What?!" Zi Di stared at the middle-aged man who was older than his father with huge shock.

"This is impossible!" Zidi shook her head, without any blood on her face, and retreated repeatedly, "this joke is not funny."

The garden Lord looked at her with interest: "of course, this is not a joke. If you don't believe it, you can look up at the room number plate."

Zidi retreated to the door and looked up to see the number. Panic and fear made her delicate body tremble slightly.

"No, no, this is not true..." Zidi murmured, unable to believe the facts in front of her.

"Didn't your father say?" The garden Lord felt strange.

Zidi was shocked. At this moment, she completely understood why her father had such a difficult and complicated look when talking to her before.

The girl was in a state of confusion.

"Oh... My poor little one." The garden Lord walked slowly to Zidi, "look at you now, how like a delicate flower swaying in the wind and rain. Don't worry, I'm a flower lover, and I'll take good care of you."

"No, no!" Zi Di suddenly woke up, retreated repeatedly, and suddenly retreated into the corridor, shaking her head constantly, "it shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this..."

The garden Lord walked to the door, with compassion and ridicule, cold and joking, looking down at Zidi: "in fact, it should be like this."

"Do you know how large the wisteria chamber of commerce is now? How many powerful people have infiltrated it?"

"Do you know your father can't control the chamber of Commerce for a long time?"

"Your father and daughter have no status on the table at all. Their blood is low and their status is humble. All their lives, they can only be limited to the black iron level, but you have a huge amount of wealth. Wisteria chamber of Commerce... Second only to the six chambers of Commerce... Behemoths..."

"I have to admit it." The Garden City owner shrugged, "your father has excellent business ability. This is his luck and perhaps his misfortune. He has no qualification and strength to master such a huge chamber of Commerce."

"He also realized this, so he went all the way to get through the relationship and finally found me."

"At first I refused."

"But later, your father's chips still moved me."

"As you know, my brother is Duke Maixiang. To take refuge in me is to take refuge in the living gods in the Empire. Only in this way can your father keep the achievements of his career and save his life and yours."

"I will marry you, and I will be your husband."

"So, come here."

The Lord of the garden waved to Zidi, "get close to me, enter this room, close the door, and take the initiative to throw it into my arms."

"I don't like to take the initiative."

"No, no..." Zidi shook her head. The cruel reality had a great impact on her. Her thoughts were confused and it was difficult to really think.

"I won't go out of this door." The Lord of garden city proudly said, "in my capacity, I won't make any action to pursue you. Young and naive miss Zidi, you are just the icing on the cake of this transaction. Please be sure to understand this."

"Of course, you are also the key. Without your marriage, other forces in the Empire will not stop easily. This is one of the rules of the game called 'politics'."

"I can't marry you, Lord, I don't want to!" Zidi's tears flowed down and cried.

The Lord of the garden city frowned and began to be unhappy: "of course, you can refuse me completely. In fact, I am not willing to sacrifice my wife's precious quota for this transaction. Making you my wife is a major waste of political resources!"

"I don't care."

"If you can't make up your mind now, I can give you time to think about it."

"Now, you can go downstairs. I believe your father is waiting for you at the corner of the stairs."

"There will be a good conversation between your father and daughter."

Zi Di's face was pale, and she forgot to salute the Lord of the garden city, and staggered downstairs.

Sure enough, her father was standing at the corner of the stairs on the first floor.

"Zidi." Father's expression is very complicated.

"You lied to me!" Zidi's eyes were in tears and she shouted angrily at her father.

"I didn't lie to you, and I never thought of lying to you! My daughter." Father hurriedly apologized.

"You chose to sacrifice me for the sake of the chamber of Commerce!?" Zidi asked, "which is more important, the chamber of Commerce or me?"

"Of course it's you. You're my only relative and my baby daughter!" The father blurted out his answer, then covered his face with his hands and sobbed, "but I can't help it, I really can't help it."

"I really want to give up the chamber of Commerce. I swear to you, I want to give up it more than once!"

"But I can't."

"I'm already in a dilemma. The chamber of commerce is infiltrated by too many dignitaries and is not under my control at all. As the founder, I can't retreat to the second line. They won't let go of a person with great influence like me. If I don't choose to join one of the forces and don't stand in line, I will be eaten by the sharks! At that time, our father and daughter will die!"

Zi Di was stunned and speechless, like falling into an ice cave.

After a long time, she said, "then why didn't you tell me?"

"Is it useful for me to tell you the truth? Is it useful?!" My father was excited, "we are just inferior people, just businessmen with humble blood. No matter how much resources we use, we will only be a black iron."

"Even if I spend more money to hire the strong, even if it is legendary! No one will deal with the major forces in the Empire for us."

"Wisteria chamber of Commerce... Hehe, although Wisteria vines are winding and luxuriant, no matter how wide the coverage is, it can only lie on the ground and let others trample on it!"

"We have to take refuge in one of them, you know? My daughter."

Zidi frowned and felt infinite sadness in her heart: "so, you want to sacrifice me? Let me marry a man older than you?"

"Sorry, sorry, sorry..." father wanted to go up and hug Zidi.

But Zidi quickly retreated, and she shouted to her father firmly, "the man upstairs is by no means my knight! My future is not like this."

At this point, she was crying.

"Zidi, my daughter..." the father called affectionately.

But at this time, the garden Lord urged upstairs, "President wisteria, you'd better hurry up. My patience is limited."

Father's face changed, as if it were cloudy. He anxiously shouted to Zidi, "Zidi, stop making trouble. Do you know how much I paid for this transaction?"

"You know a thing or two about your father and the efforts and risks I have taken for the wisteria chamber of Commerce. You know how difficult it is for me!"

"I can't just watch it be taken away!"

"Help dad, ah, when you repay my upbringing. Over the years, your food and clothing costs, your high tuition fees, are all given by Dad. No matter what money, Dad tries to satisfy you. Like this Rainbow cake, don't you like it very much?"

Looking at such a father, Zidi only felt cold to the bone.

"No, I don't like rainbow cake! Now it seems that it is just a means for you to realize your plan!"

"From now on, I won't spend any more money on you. I will pay you back what you have invested in me!"

Seeing Zi Di's determination, his father became more and more angry: "enough, what nonsense do you say? You can't live a day without me! How can you live such a superior young lady's life by yourself? Listen to your father's words and marry the Lord of the garden city, and you won't worry for a lifetime!!"

"No, never!!" Zidi roared, lifted her skirt, turned and ran.

Behind her came her father's call to stop her, but Zidi ran faster.

She rushed out of the building door and almost sprained her foot. One of her beautiful pearl white high heels was lost, and Zidi simply kicked the other one away.

She ran into the garden, and the beautiful and fluffy princess skirt was scratched in the bushes, adding gaps and becoming dilapidated.

She was crying, and her tears fell all the way.

Her ears still echoed her father's words. You can't live a day without me! How can you live such a superior young lady's life by yourself?

How hurtful, Zidi became more and more angry and sad. She tore off the diamond necklace on her chest, took off the expensive exquisite bracelet, and then threw it casually on the roadside.

She finally ran to the gate of the manor, and the guards looked at today's protagonist strangely.

The princess, who was originally in full dress, was the apple of the president's eye. At the moment, her dress was tattered, panting, and her face was full of tears.

"Miss Zidi, what can I do for you?"

"Open the door for me!"

"This can't be done. The President issued a strict order." The guards shook their heads again and again, with a firm attitude.

"Zidi." Behind him came a familiar voice.

Zidi looked back and saw fat tongue. Her body trembled and tears: "are you here to persuade me, too? Uncle fat tongue."

Fat tongue shook his head slowly, "I don't agree with your father's behavior. Take my carriage and go. I'll persuade your father."

With that, he ordered the guards, "now, open the door."

"But..."

"I'll explain to the president. If something happens, the responsibility lies with me, and I won't implicate you." Fat tongue has a firm attitude.

The guards had to comply.

Fat tongue escorted Zidi all the way to her carriage.

"Uncle fat tongue, thank you!" Zidi stepped on the car steps, and she was extremely grateful to fat tongue.

Fat tongue smiled bitterly, "I watched you grow up, son. Don't blame your father. He has difficulties and is forced to have no way."

"No, I will never forgive him!" Zidi gritted her teeth.

She glanced deeply at the manor, which was her home for many years.

Then she got into the carriage.

Inadvertently, the crystal crown on her head touched the lintel of the door and fell down.

Zidi looked back at the crown on the ground, and then closed the door of the carriage without hesitation.

"Let's go! Go back to the magic school." The next moment, her determined voice came out of the car.